Kilmartin Axe Shaped Achnabreck Brooch Rackwick Legend tells that a Viking

Legend tells that a Viking night-raider stepped on a thistle and yelled in pain

Burns wrote a poem to his Edinburgh paramour

and the interweaving lines that surrounded it

The first Christian missionary to reach Scotland

this cross suggests the presence of Celtic Christianity amidst Pictish culture in the middle years of the first millennium

Kilmartin Axe Shaped Achnabreck Brooch Rackwick Legend tells that a VikingKilmartin Glen in Argyll is home to a great concentration of prehistoric monuments, including an unparalleled range of rock carvings. Kilmartin House Museum is at the heart of this unique cultural landscape. Discover more Kilmartin jewellery here.